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A New Chapter for Realtime AI: Reasoning, Translation, and Real-Time Transcription

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Naomi Moneypenny
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May 07, 2026

Three models. One moment. Here's what's shipping and why it matters for developers building AI voice applications.

Voice can be one of the most direct and productive interfaces for AI — enabling customer support agents that may resolve issues without a single keystroke, live multilingual communication that can ta...
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sjmakin
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May 13, 2026

GPT-realtime-2 still not available nearly 1 week on from announcing it was going to be released 'today'. The whisper models are available, but we are missing the main realtime voice to voice model. Whats going on Naomi Moneypenny​  Dave_Jacobs​?